ALTER ECO
San Fransisco, California
NOURISHING FOODIE, FARMER AND FIELD through sustainable foods from around the world.
Their mission is global transformation through ethical relationships with small-scale farmers, and an integral sustainability orientation at every point on the supply chain.
Alter Eco is based on the premise that food is fundamental to life – and whole, healthy, delicious food can make life better for people all over the world. By working directly with the small-scale farmers who grow our quinoa, rice, sugar and cacao, helping them institute Fair Trade and Organic practices and assisting them in improving both quality of food and quality of life, they’re creating a system that benefits everyone involved. Our values extend to the flora, fauna and fields – and work with their co-op partners to preserve heirloom grains, replenish and reforest the land. And as a GHG Protocol 3 Carbon Zero business, they offset more carbon than they emit.
Their values are liably delicious , environmentally responsible and socially just.
But the achievement they are most proud of is the family they have created. Together with farmers, employees, investors and customers, they are taking an adventure through food, and creating a vision of the future that’s fair, prosperous, healthy and mouth-watering. Though they can’t all break bread at the same table, they like to think that every time they crack open a bag or bar of Alter Eco in the states, they’re sharing a lively meal with Gustavo in Bolivia, Sompoi in Thailand, Grover in Ecuador – and you.
Alter Eco co-founders, Tristan Lecomte in France, Mathieu Senard and EdouardRollet in the United States and IlseKeijzer in Australia were trained in business but remain activists at heart. Before starting Alter Eco over a decade ago, they had experienced first-hand both profit-driven multinationals and on-the-ground NGOs. Seeing the challenges of existing humanitarian aid efforts, they became pioneers in social entrepreneurialism, wielding their business acumen to fight for social and economic justice.